this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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This is about the moderator class justifying their power to set the bounds of allowed discourse. Empowering the users with the means of decide their own curation algorithm settings would disempower moderators. And since the moderators can speak louder than users, they have more influence on the design direction.of Lemmy.
In a properly decentralized system, the default view would be everything and you would apply your preferred filters on top.
Communities themselves wouldn't be moderated, users would decide their own moderation actions publicly and other users would subscribe to moderation action feeds of people they agree with. Or maybe our own content curation algorithms would determine the moderation consensus of the whole userbase and take action on the client side using that to decide what to display.
Current Lemmy falls way way short of any of those features.
If I may ask, why do you believe that a properly decentralized system would default to everybody having to filter out things like hate speech on their own?
Because deleting stuff is easy
Undeleting stuff is impossible
If you let other people delete stuff for you, you hand over control of your thoughts to anonymous third parties